FT8WW was on 15 mtr CW this morning, 21045 KHz with a 20 KHz wide pileup. I began to hear him around 1215 UTC and his signal came up to respectable copy, weak, but very Q5. This was SP, nothing LP which I did not expect. He was predominantly working JA's with an occasional EU thrown in to dampen down their bitching. He started dropping into the noise around 1330 UTC but came back up about 5 mins later, working EU. He apparently went QRT around 1345 UTC as the 20 KHz wide pileup went away.

I did not hear him working any NA even though many were calling.

On 2023-01-11 04:00, [email protected] wrote:

Yea looks like it was a PIRATE.

On 2023-01-10 19:01, David Norris wrote:

I worked a station yesterday on 15 CW running that call- FT8WW. However, I am a bit suspicious of it being a pirate. WFWL...

73

David A. Norris, K5UZ
Director, Delta Division

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On Jan 10, 2023, at 2:43 PM, jayw5jay <[email protected]> wrote:

We were monitoring for him on Ft 8. Popped up his call sign but I think it was a pirate. Wrong sequence and too strong. We only saw him print twice. Like I said I think it was a pirate.

Had a ton of fun with the Congo today.

73 Jay/w5jay..

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-------- Original message --------

From: [email protected]

Date: 1/10/23 2:39 PM (GMT-06:00)

To: [email protected]

Subject: [ADXA] Any 15 Meter Copy on FT8WW?

FT8WW has been on 15 mtrs the past two mornings, starting on CW then moving to FT8.

Has anyone copied him on 15 meters??

He was very very weak this morning on 15 CW SP. I had no copy LP or via a skewed path. He was not strong enough for me to call and bust through the EU pileup. He faded out after a bit. When he moved to FT8 I had no copy. There were a few east coast USA stations calling him, a few on FT8WW's xmit sequence who obviously were NOT hearing him at all!!!!! No USA stations were working him.

I actually saw an EU station calling him during FT8WW's sequence and calling with "FT5WW". Quite obvious he never copied Thierry!!! Some of this is very comical, most of it is sickening but this is not new. It has existed on CW and SSB forever!

Anyway, just curious of any ADXA folks have copied him on 15 meters?

73 Joel W5ZN
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